I’ve heard it referred to as many names over my lifetime:
Juneteenth
Black Independence Day
Emancipation Day
Jubilee Day
etc
I really don’t give a damn what formal name was chosen on the legislation that declared it a national holiday... honestly anyone that has an issue with celebrating the end of slavery in the United States has some serious issues.
I grew up in the south. Some of my best friends were from humble black families in the rural area I grew up in. They knew their history and I knew it as well. What we all celebrated then was our Christian and American heritage. Christmas, 4th of July, Vet and Memorial Day, etc. I never heard such bemoaning over what was in the past. Now all you hear is about how tough it was to come from slavery when no one today ever experienced it. Just an excuse for attention.
I am hearing from Texas Freepers this ‘Juneteenth’ was a Texas holiday. Fine. Let it be a Texas holiday then.
I have no issue with people celebrating whatever they want, as long as it doesnt impose on me. But like the LGBT++++ stuff, this is one more step of ‘in your face’ on the way to reparations BS when its elevated to a national level.
When a group of people (such as black Americans are) stand up to and solve their own problems (crime, looting, BLM rioting, drugs, having kids out of marriage and single parenting, etc, etc), then I might have more enthusiasm for celebrating THEIR ANCESTORS freedom.
And I am not racists.
I have no issue celebrating the end of slavery, but I want one more national holiday for the future.
I want to celebrate the end of the current racist abomination against white people and Asians.
It is called Affirmative Action.
We need to end it.
Then we need to celebrate the day we ended it.
That was called Lincoln’s Birthday. Then it got rolled into Washington’s and called Presidents Day, which is sort of generic.